Fred Feldman presents a philosophical study of the nature and value of happiness. The aim is to understand what happiness is. Opposing theories of happiness are explained and criticized and a new theory is presented and defended. Feldman's views have important implications for moral philosophy and also for theemerging field of hedonic psychology. INDICE: 1: Some Puzzles about Happiness; Part One - Some Things that Happiness Isn't; 2: Sensory Hedonism about Happiness; 3: Kahneman's 'Objective Happiness'; 4: Subjective Local Preferentism about Happiness; 5: Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness; Appendix A. Happiness and Time: More Nails inthe Coffin of WLS; Appendix B. Happiness =df. Whatever the Happiness Test Measures; Part Two - What Happiness Is; 6: What is This Thing Called Happiness?; Appendix C. The Meaning(s) of 'Happy'; 7: Attitudinal Hedonism about Happiness; 8: Eudaimonism; Appendix D - Five Grades of Demonic Possession; 9: The Problem of Inauthentic Happiness; 10: Disgusting Happiness; 11: Our Authority Over Our Own Happiness; Part Three - Implications for the Empirical Study of Happiness; 12: Measuring Happiness; 13: Empirical Research; Philosophical Conclusions; 14: The Central Points of the Project as a Whole
- ISBN: 978-0-19-957117-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 18/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés